Machine for use in sliding match boxes



Jul 14, 1925.-

L. E. PARKER MACHINE FOR USE IN SLIDING MATCH BOXES Filed Oct. 8. 192

Patented July 14, 1925.

UNITED] s'm'riaz's PATENT LUCIAN E.- PARKER, or WADSWORTH, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE OHIO MATCH IPANY, or WADSWORTH, OHIO, A ooarona'rrou or OHIO.

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MACI-IINE FOR USE IN SLIDING MATCH BOXES.

Application filed October s, 1923. Serial No. 667,345. I

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, LUOIAN E. PARKER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Wadsworth, in the county of Medina and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Machines for Use in Sliding Match Boxes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. i I

The object of this invention primarily is to provide a round table foruse in sliding match boxes, that is to say, for facilitating the manual operation of applying the slides or shucks to the filled trays, the round table affording places for a maximum number of operatives on a minimum area of fioor space, and the filled trays and the shucks or slides being continuously delivered to the operatives in easy reach of their right andleft 20 hands respectively while the machine is running.

. he invention consists of a preferably circular table having a rotary inner member to which the filled trays are delivered in any suitable Way and traveling toward the operatives, and a surroundingstationary circular outer member composed of five,more

or less, individual sections opposite which. are seats for the operatives all faclng the 0 same way and tangential to the table by preference, and to which the shucks or slides are automatically delivered on the several sections, convenient to the left hand of the operatives, so that the operatives may at the same time pick up a filled tray with the right hand and a shuck or slide with the left hand and assemble them and dispose of the assembled parts in any desired or approved way, the stationary outer member of the table having another section longer than the others with an operatives seat facing it directly, so that this operative may clear the table of any upset of broken boxes or parts of boxes and all scattered matches that may 4 reach this last operative, as I will proceed now to explain and finally claim.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating the invention, in the several figures of which like parts are similarly designated,

Figure 1 is atop plan view, and Fig. 2 1s fastened to and support the stationary circular sectional outer member 3 of the table, An upright ,shaftfl is mounted to turn centrally in the pedestal, and on this shaft and turning with it is the rotary circular inner member 5 of the table. The arms 2 carry bearings 6 containing rollers which contact with the under side of the rotary table member 5 to aid in supporting it, and to ensure its proper travel.

The outer stationary member 3 of the table is recessed at, five more or lessequidistant points 7, andopposite these points are arranged the seats 8, for the operatives,

which seats are mountedonbrackets 9 fas tened to the pedestal in any suitable way and having the individual or continuous foot rest 10. Each seat is provided with a clamping device 11 by which the position ofthe seat may be adjusted on the supporting bracket 9., These seats are arranged substantially tangential to the table and all of them Fig. 1, so that the material placed upon this rotary table will be moved toward the occupants of the seats and within reach of their right hands.

The recesses 7 divide the outer member of the table intofive, more or less, sections 12 which form, as it were, individual work tables for the several operatives or occupantsof the seats, these sections extending toward the left hand sides of the several operatives, so that both hands of the operatives are free to handle the respective parts of the boxes to be assembled, namely,

the filled trays carried to the operatives by the rotary member of thejtable and the shuck's or slides for inclosingthe filled trays delivered on the individual work tables.

One section 13 of the outer member of the table is somewhat longer than'the individual work table sections, and it is arranged between what would be relatively the first and last operatives seats, andopposite this sec tion 13 is an operativesseat' 14 facing the table directly and designed to be occupied by an operative for clearing the table of upset or broken boxes or parts of boxes and of scattered matches incident to the work of the occupants of the seats8, or otherwise produced, 1

7 Within the hopperia 'l'd..resti;ng upon and se-f spective left-l hands. KVithiIl .this hopper is a cone 18 having the bearing piece 19 by which it may be mountedon the upper end 'of-the shaft 4 to turn with said shaft, said rcone serving as a sorto'f agit-atorto move ,the'nshu'oks ors'lides and assist them in escaping from the hopper into the chutes '16.

cur to itshottom is a runcated come 20 which extends up into the cone 18 and serves to prevent the lshucks or slides from being jammed beneath the .oon'e 1 8.

Any suitable meansfmay be used tor im- 7 parting rotary motion-to the shaft '41, and

one such-meanscoi'isi'sts of a shaft 21 mounted transversely ,in the-bottom of the pedestal 1 and having a worm gear connection 22' with the shaft and a'sprocliet wheel 23 which maybe connected with the drive installation ofthe ,facto-ry in which the round table is used. Oil, course, each roundtable may have its own motor.

It will be nnd'erstood from the foregoing t y the construc i ndescribecLiama-in object of the invention isaccomplished,

namely to concentrate in as .srnallafloor space as poss bl he gr t t numbe o peratives for assemblingthe parts of snatch box ommonly called th sliding, operatio a d not only so but t e rangeme t is such as to greatly simplify the workrof the operatives and promote convenience of opera-tron;

. The .o ly"difieren e etw n' the rms 9 i for theseats 8 and the arm 9 forthe seat is that in the forrner case the ends 2550f the arms-9 for the seats 8- are 'made at-an the-inset or tangential arrangementofthe -zs t whereas th enc of the arm .9 "fo he seat; l' lgis"continued out straight so as to h ve th o up t o hat {seat 1 fron i g t e ,work; ;and table directly, all as shown clearly in-Fig. 1.

er d in anysuri a-b e ay, y nd or hy-maaine y, o the rotary mem e o the b e in spaced relation and carried to. the op erat-ives occupying the seats 8,.and lithe ,shucks or traysare delivered from the hop:

per 15 through the chutes 16' to the respec-- tive worktables in front of the operatives,

and the operatives take with their right hands fill led'I tray and with their left hands a'shuck or slideand'assemble the two, and then dispose of the thus assembled parts of the boxed matches in any suitable way,

while the upset or broken boxes and the scattered matches are carried around to the operativeoccupying seat 1 1 and disposed of by said operative as circumstances and the condition of the materials warrant.

While the invention has been shown and described as speciallyadapt d for uselin a match factory for assemblingthefilled trays in their shucksor slides, fitis'to be understood, of course, that the invention is applicable for sliding boxes containing other things -than1natches, the invention is to be understood accordingly.

"I 'have'thus described one simple and convenient embodiment ,otthe invention, but it y it to be (understood that variations are per- 7 inissible within-the principle of the .inventiona'nd the claims following. I

'What 1 (31311 11 18 '1. A table having an outer stationary member recessed at intervals to there y divide 1t lnto individual work tables or sections, seats for operatives extending Wilt/i111].

said recesses thereby toposition the operatives convemently for performing their. work, means for dehvering articles to .the

individual work tables in front of the operatives, and an inner'rotary' table member traveling toward the operatives and adapted to receive other (articles and carry them within coijifvenieigitrea'oh of the operatives. table -;havi 'n g an outer stationary membe eces edat in ervalst h e y vide it intoin (;lividual work tables, seats for ope ati es projeetin'g'into said recesses a d all,f acing one wayand preie'rab'ly so that the left-hands ofthefoperatives will be at theon siio e the .tablean he ight a ds at theinn r side) and the individual work tables in frontof the operatives, means to; deliver articles to the work tables in front fthe ope t ves, and ar ta y inne table m mber rotating towards he operatives a d serving. .to clarry other. articles to the opv .erat es. 1 angle to thebody of the arms'so as to. effect I tablehaving an outer stationary member reoess'ed st inte v s o t ereby divide it into individual work tables, seats for operativesinset in said recesses vand all taping one way and so that the left hands of the operatives-will be ,at: the outside of I the tableand the right hands .at, the inner he. trays filled- .with matches: are deliv- ,and a rotary inner tarblemember rotating towards the operatives and. servingtto carry other art-icles to the operatives, the outer vtable member havin v a larger section arranged between the rst and last of the individual work tables and having an operatives seat arranged to face the same directly to provide for clearing the table of debris.

4:. The combination of a pedestal having outwardly projecting arms, a table member stationarily supported upon said arms and recessed to form a series of individual work tables, brackets projecting outwardly from said pedestal, seats supported on said brackets and extending into said recesses, a foot rest on said brackets, an upright shaft mounted to turn in said pedestal, a rotary table member fixed to said shaft and in part supported on said arms, and work-sup plying means for said stationary table member.

5. The combination of a pedestal having outwardly projecting arms, a table member stationarily supported upon said arms and recessed to -form a series of individual work tables, brackets projecting outwardly from said pedestal, seats supported on said brackets and extending into said recesses, foot rest on said brackets, an upright shaft mounted to turn in said pedestal, a rotary table member fixed to said shaft and in part supported on said arms, a hopper mounted above the stationary table member and provided with chutes to deliver its contents to the individual work tables, and an agitator in said hopper mounted upon and turning with said shaft.

6. The combination of a pedestal having outwardly projecting arms, a table member stationarily supported upon said arms and recessed to form a series of individual work tables, brackets projecting outwardly from said pedestal, seats supported on said brackets and extending into said recesses, a foot rest on said brackets, an upright shaft mounted to turn in said pedestal, a rotary table member fixed to said shaft and in part supported on said arms, a hopper mounted above the stationary table member and provided with chutes to deliver its contents to the individual work tables, an agitator in said hopper mounted upon and turning with said shaft, and a deflector mounted upon the bottom of the hopper and extending within the cone. 7

7 A round table for use in sliding matches and for other purposes, comprising an outer circular member, means to support it stationarily, an inner circular member, means to rotate it, a hopper mounted above the table and adapted to discharge its contents at selected places upon the outer circular member, and seats for operatives arranged within the outer member adjacent to and facing the hopper discharge elements.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 6th day of October A. D. 1923.

'LUoIAN E. PARKER. Witnesses v J. A. .GRUMSINE, W H. SHENJL. 

